Summer is over and a lot of us will be exploring new employment opportunities. Rebecca, a recruiter at Google, and Kendall, a software engineer, are sharing general resume tips, and specific advice for business resumes and engineering and technical resumes. Also, some great advice from our Worldwide School vlog about English punctuation to help you write the perfect CV that’ll get noticed.

While Google automatically rejects resumes with typos, a more critical error won’t get flagged by spellcheck. Most resume job 4)_____________ (describe), according to Google recruiters and hiring experts, are too vague and too lengthy. More 5)__________ (criticize), those descriptions don’t explicitly demonstrate how candidates made big things happen — how they 6)___ (leader) projects, boosted sales or saved the company money.

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To help you avoid making that same error, a Google software engineer and recruiter shared a 7)______ (simplicity) job description formula in a company-sponsored YouTube video designed to make resume-speak easy: “Accomplished X, as measured by Y, by doing Z.”

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In these three examples, Googlers 8)___________ (demonstration) how a simple rewrite can make any resume detail more 9)________ (power) and better help in 10)_______ (tell) a job-hunter’s story.